Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.